“As Mahavir stood amid the cheering crowd that day, his gaze locked in on his daughter with pride, the cold winter morning of 1988 flashed before his eyes. In reality, Mahavir Singh Phogat was in the stands during Geeta’s match and saw his daughter win the Commonwealth Games gold medal. In the movie, Mahavir Phogat is taken to a room and locked up by a person sent by the Indian wrestling team coach just before the gold medal match. Was Mahavir Phogat locked up during Geeta’s Commonwealth Games final match?
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Also, Geeta Phogat has long hair in the real match, while her reel counterpart in the movie has a really short hairstyle. However, in reality, Geeta Phogat completely dominated her opponent and won the match in just two rounds, unlike the one shown in the movie that went on to three rounds. She scores a five-pointer in the nail-biting final round of the match and clinches the gold medal with a scoreline of 5-1, 4-6, 6-5. In the movie, Geeta Phogat struggles to win the gold medal match in the Commonwealth Games in 2010. Was Geeta’s real Commonwealth Games Gold Medal Match the Cliffhanger that is shown in the film? Interestingly, Geeta’s 2010 CWG gold was followed by another gold medal at the Commonwealth Wrestling Championship in Melbourne in 2011! 4. However, in reality, Geeta had earlier won the gold medal at the Commonwealth Wrestling Championship in 2009, where she competed in the 55kg freestyle wrestling category. She also receives a lot of flak from the coach in the movie for not excelling on the international stage. In the movie, Geeta Phogat doesn’t win a single tournament before the Commonwealth Games in 2010. Did Geeta not Win a Single Tournament Before the Commonwealth Games? A still from Dangal Photo Source In reality, this character is fictional and there is no such villainous coach in the life of Geeta Phogat or any of her sisters. Like Bollywood movies on sports, Dangal creates a villain in the coach Pramod Kadam at the National Sports Academy (played by Girish Kulkarni), who demands that Geeta disavow her previous training. Was there really a villainous coach as portrayed in the film? A still from Dangal Photo Source Her disappointment showed clearly on her face.” 2.
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But, ironically, it was not Mahavir but his wife, Daya Kaur, who was hoping that their first child would be a boy. When the baby was born, the chill of the winter morning stung a little more fiercely as Daya realised that their firstborn was a girl. “One can perhaps imagine the state of Mahavir’s mind as the father of a daughter in the late 80s, when girls were considered a liability. In Mahavir Singh Phogat’s biography, ‘ Akhada: The Authorized Biography of Mahavir Singh Phogat’, Saurabh Duggal writes, However, in reality, it was the girls’ mother who was quite disappointed as she was the one who wished for a boy. He and his wife try four times to give birth to a boy, but instead give birth to four girls.
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In the movie, Mahavir Singh Phogat desperately wants a boy child so that he can win a gold medal for the country. Was Mahavir Singh Phogat really disappointed at getting daughters? A still from Dangal Photo Source So if you are planning to watch Dangal in the coming days and do not want us to spoil the movie for you, stop reading this!) 1. (Note: You are now entering spoiler territory. Here are a few facts shown in Dangal that differ from what happened in the real life of the Phogats. However, while the core of the movie’s story holds true to the real life events of Mahavir Singh Phogat, director Nitesh Tiwari allowed himself a few cinematic liberties. Thanks to the Phogat family’s inspiring story and great performances by its lead cast (Mahavir Singh Phogat played by Aamir Khan, Geeta Phogat played by Fatima Sana Shaikh and Babita Phogat played by Sanya Malhotra), Dangal is a wonderfully riveting film. The fact that the girls were from Haryana, a state infamous for female foeticide, made their feat even more remarkable. Vinesh went on to win another gold medal at the Commonwealth Games 2014.
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Her success set the ball rolling for her sisters Babita, Ritu and Sangeeta and cousins, Vinesh and Priyanka, to take up the sport and play it at an international level. Mahavir Singh Phogat with his daughters in real life (left) and in the movie ‘Dangal’ (right) Photo Source A man of tremendous fortitude and conviction, Mahavir Singh Phogat’s first big success was when his eldest daughter Geeta Kumari Phogat won gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. Director Nitesh Tiwari’s latest movie, Dangal, tells the remarkable story of an ageing wrestler, Mahavir Singh Phogat, who fought against all odds to mould his daughters into wrestling champions.